Heartlands Building Company

For a standard height single retractable screen door, our installed price is $450. The installed price on a set of standard height retractable screen doors for French doors is $800. There is a $40 up charge to get (pet resistant) super screen or solar screen and for taller doors, but there are no “special” installation up charge surprises. Yes, this price is higher than our competitors, but you have to consider you are not comparing equal products. The Clearview retractable screen doors come standard with a back plate (necessary for sliding door installations), hidden magnets inside the pull bar on French door applications, and most importantly, the built-in mechanical speed reducer. If you’ve ever experienced the “slam” when you accidently let go of the handle when operating a retractable screen door, you know what the “slam” is. It’s nice to know that if you, your guests or your kids let go of the handle, the screen will retract at a reasonable pace.

Another for the “I can’t believe that was in there!” files. Heartlands is remodeling an older home and as part of demo, a bathtub was removed. Underneath the old tub, we found this: Now, if you’re from St. Louis and you’re over 40, you will probably recognize it as a Falstaff beer bottle. The Falstaff brewery has been shut down for years, so this is definitely a blast from the past. The real question is, was that placed there before the tub was dropped in or did someone stuff it up there from the basement rafters in an effort to hide the fact that it had been consumed? We may never know, but it sure provided a few smiles and created a “buzz” around here!